Notes on the State of VirginiaR.T. Rawle, 1801 - 495 pagini |
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Pagina 8
... fize in Hampton road , but not in fafety through the whole winter ; and there is navigable water for them as far as Mulberry ifland . A 40 gun fhip goes to James town , and , lightening herself , may pass to Har- rifon's bar , on which ...
... fize in Hampton road , but not in fafety through the whole winter ; and there is navigable water for them as far as Mulberry ifland . A 40 gun fhip goes to James town , and , lightening herself , may pass to Har- rifon's bar , on which ...
Pagina 9
... fize . The river there narrows to the width of a mile , and is contain- ed within very high banks , clofe under which the vef- fels may ride . It holds 4 fathom water at high tide for 25 miles above York to the mouth of Poropotank ...
... fize . The river there narrows to the width of a mile , and is contain- ed within very high banks , clofe under which the vef- fels may ride . It holds 4 fathom water at high tide for 25 miles above York to the mouth of Poropotank ...
Pagina 62
... fize as well as in the number and form of their points . That it was not an elephant , I think af certained by proofs equally decifive . I will not avail myself of the authority of the celebrated anatomist , who , from an examination of ...
... fize as well as in the number and form of their points . That it was not an elephant , I think af certained by proofs equally decifive . I will not avail myself of the authority of the celebrated anatomist , who , from an examination of ...
Pagina 69
... fize of animals depend on the heat and moisture of climate . If therefore we take a region , fo.extenfive as to comprehend a fenfible diftinction of climate , and fo.extenfive too as that lo- cal accidents , or the intercourfe of ...
... fize of animals depend on the heat and moisture of climate . If therefore we take a region , fo.extenfive as to comprehend a fenfible diftinction of climate , and fo.extenfive too as that lo- cal accidents , or the intercourfe of ...
Pagina 76
... fize has been given me by many who have seen them . But Monf . D'Aubenton fays that the renne of Europe is about the fize of a red deer . The weazel is larger in America than in Europe , as may be seen by comparing its dimenfions as ...
... fize has been given me by many who have seen them . But Monf . D'Aubenton fays that the renne of Europe is about the fize of a red deer . The weazel is larger in America than in Europe , as may be seen by comparing its dimenfions as ...
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Pagina 96 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Pagina 243 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Pagina 328 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Pagina 328 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in His almighty power to do...
Pagina 329 - ... that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right...
Pagina 222 - History, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men...
Pagina 27 - ... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from...
Pagina 243 - And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other.
Pagina 243 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another...
Pagina 328 - ... the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical who being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible...